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To-day was not one of them; consequently when Hubert Eldon called, about half-past four, the servant came up to the drawing-room to ask if Mrs. Westlake would be at home to him. Adela was in the room; at the mention of the name she rose. 'I must write a letter before dinner, she said. 'I win go and get it done whilst you are engaged. 'Won't you stay? Do stay! 'I had much rather not.
She had not prepared herself for the question, and it went to the root of her thoughts; none the less she replied instantly, careless how he understood the truth. 'I kept silence because the meeting had given me pain, because it distressed me to have to speak with Mr. Eldon at that place and at that time, because I knew how you regard him, and was afraid to mention him to you.
Parr, as the doors swung open and he led the way into the house, "I'm sorry I can't give you a more cheerful welcome, but my son and daughter, for their own reasons, see fit to live elsewhere." Hodder's quick ear detected in the tone another cadence, and he glanced at Eldon Parr with a new interest....
Beattie, whom he found a poet, &c. Post, Sept. 12. See ante, i. 274. Afterwards Lord Stowell. He, his brother Lord Eldon, and Chambers were all Newcastle men. See ante, i. 462, for an anecdote of the journey and for a note on 'the Commons. See ante, ii. 453. See ante, iv.
On the contrary, the higher sanity of it was disturbing; and its extraordinary implication gradually borne in upon Eldon Parr was that he himself were not in his right mind. The words, when they came, were a confirmation of this inference. "It is what I feared, Mr. Parr," he said. "You are as yet incapable of comprehending." "What do you mean?" asked the banker, jerking his hand from the table.
John's is more fortunate to-day than it ever has been in its existence. Mr. Hodder should have an unanimous testimonial of appreciation from this vestry for his courage. And if the vote requesting him to resign prevails, I venture to predict that there is not a man on this vestry who will not live to regret it." Phil Goodrich glared at Eldon Parr, who remained unmoved.
His parishioners! his Christians! Oh God! The man was speaking in his shrill voice. "Well, I was a Traction sucker, all right, and I guess you wouldn't have to walk more than two blocks to find another in this neighbourhood. You think Eldon Parr's a big, noble man, don't you? You're proud to run his church, ain't you?
The Utilitarians saw in the dogged obstructiveness of Eldon and his like the one great obstacle to reform. It did not occur to them that the clumsiness of parliamentary legislation might be another difficulty. They failed to notice distinctly one tendency of their reforms.
The modernity, however, is not all bad, as this favourite phrase would imply; much of it is doubtless regrettable and a very little of it perhaps inevitable; but no one will deny either the modernity or the beauty of Grey Street, one of the finest streets in any English town; or the fine appearance of Grainger Street, Blackett Street, Eldon Square, or any other of the stately thoroughfares with which Grainger and Dobson enriched the town within the last eighty years no one, that is, who has learned to "lift his eyes to the sky-line in passing along a thoroughfare" instead of keeping them firmly fixed at the level of shop windows.
She locked the door, then unfolded the will and began to peruse it with care. The testator devised the whole of his real estate to Hubert Eldon; to Hubert also he bequeathed his personal property, subject to certain charges. These were first, the payment of a legacy of one thousand pounds to Mrs. Eldon; secondly, of a legacy of five hundred pounds to Mr.
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